Tom Beesley

Hi Rebecca - this is really cool. Could it be used to detect head turns (left/right)?

Sorry Mark. I hope I've not got you in trouble. We can consider it a long term loan 😂

On my way home from a nice trip to @notts-psych.bsky.social visiting @markhaselgrove.bsky.social and others. Always a great place to visit. They even gave me a very nice and appropriate gift from their department library 😊

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

Always nice to see papers out in the wild.

Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"

By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social

share.google/0IoZwV3sne1N...

Look forward to reading this!

Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.

Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?

It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start!

- Average of 700 users/day
- Record 1.2K users yesterday
- From 78 countries
- 66% win overall
- 2m 18s average engagement

Thank you to all who played + shared the game
Any feedback, send our way!

I've started using this (you can specify type = "interaction") www.rdocumentation.org/packages/pwr...

Typically one .R that does basic data processing and cleaning that often results in several data objects that are saved as .RData. Then load that .RData in a quarto doc for the analysis "proper", which might be a lab report or manuscript. Data stored in raw form alongside for full reproducibility

Still taken from taskmaster of a man sitting in front of a red light bulb reading a card that says "Tell Alex why the light bulb turns on".

Nice demonstration here of how interposing a delay between action and outcome can impact causal understanding of the instrumental relationship.

www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFcFj...

Great start to the week.

"Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC.

Will get a preprint up and available soon.

This looks neat. Thanks!

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are.

Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I found the process to be largely a waste of time. Ironically time that could be spent on doing science that leads to 3 and 4* papers.

We did ~90 last summer. 15 minutes per paper. Read abstract, look at figures/stats to get sense of analysis approach, look at open science credentials, read general conclusions. Roll dice until you get a number between 1 and 4. Repeat. (Joke, actually flip a coin to determine 3 or 4...)

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …

Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎

For all the up to date information, please check our website.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Actually, that's not fair. Andy D for ALC

It's been a long time since I've come across Class 3 😢

Now children, hands up if you've heard of the Rescorla-Wagner model

I pointed out you may have trouble stepping in the first place

Lots of questions about stepping on lego. That really connected with them. 😅

Spent the morning talking about psychology my children's school. Now, I've given many talks to leading experts from across the world, but nothing prepares you for Qs from 6-7 year olds! Personal favourite, from my own son, "if you stepped on a bit of lego and didn't have a brain, would you feel it?"

Hi Andy. If there's room, me, @jntowse.bsky.social @robayedavies.bsky.social @amyatkinson.bsky.social from Lancaster

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …

The portal is now open for abstract submissions to the EPS meeting at Lancaster University (2nd - 4th April). eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/